Absolut Vodka, long known for their edgy ads in newspapers and magazines around the world, is under fire for an advertisement (above) featuring a map that shows part of the modern-day United States under Mexican control.  The ad was run in Mexico, and, was actually an accurate map at one point … in the early-mid 1800s. 

The company has pulled the ad, but many are calling for a boycott of the company.  Absolut probably didn’t gain many fans from the anti-immigration coalition by issuing the statement “[the ad] hearkens to a time which the population of Mexico may feel was more ideal," according to Reuters.

Of course, it wasn’t long ago that some of us in the US were calling French fries “freedom fries” because of our political differences with France.

So, was the ad simply an amusing way to woo Mexican consumers, or something that Americans should be offended by?